Future Time Quotes:

Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

topic: Arriving, Illusion, Future Time, Desirable

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Future Time, Concept Of Time

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Inspirational, Life, Change, Managing Change, Managing Time

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Future, Live In The Now

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

- James A. Baldwin

source: "James Baldwin: My Uncle and His Love Life" by T. Better Baldwin, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2014.

topic: Time, Future, Blessing, Live In The Now, Present Future

It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Life, Sound, Idiot, Most Memorable, Metaphors Of Life

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

- Belva Davis

source: Belva Davis, Vicki Haddock (2011). “Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism”, p.215, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Dream, Best Success, Managing Change

He who controls the past controls the future.

- Laozi

topic: Future, Past, Political Language, Power And Control, Looking To The Future

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

- John Galsworthy

source: Swan Song (1928).

topic: Future, Thinking, Future Destiny, Future Thinking, Future Time

If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Positive, Dream, Achieve, Managing Change, Great Minds

You can never plan the future by the past.

- Edmund Burke

topic: Time, Smart, Inspiration, Inspirational Future, Past Future

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.

- Walt Disney

topic: Inspirational, Mother, Dream, Best Success, Managing Change

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

- George Orwell

source: Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 3 (1949) See Orwell 19

topic: Dream, Time, Peace, Dystopia, Power And Control

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Inspirational, Life, Success, Meaningless Life, Most Memorable

You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us

- Sappho

source: Sappho, Mary Barnard (1958). “Sappho”, p.58, Univ of California Press

topic: Thinking, May, Forget, Future Time

Homeopathy may be defined as a specious mode of doing nothing. While it waits on the natural progress of disease and the restorative tendence of nature on the one hand, or the injurious advance of disease on the other, it supplies the craving for activity, on the part of the patient and his friends, by the formal and regular administration of nominal medicine. Although homeopathy will, at some future time, be classed with historical delusions.

- Jacob Bigelow

source: Jacob Bigelow (1867). “Modern Inquiries, Classical, Professional, and Miscellaneous”, p.231

topic: Hands, Medicine, Waiting, Future Time, Homeopathy

You should never even ask if a campaign is winnable, because the question is not answerable. No-one can predict the course of the future. Time and time again I have seen completely unforeseeable shifts in the tide of events that result in campaign victory.

- Elizabeth May

topic: Victory, Climate, Events, Future Time

Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time.

- Abraham Lincoln

source: Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.448, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: War, Civil War, Doe, Future Time

To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic contrivances may be as natural to future times as to us is a literary correspondence.

- Joseph Glanvill

topic: Distance, Mean, May, Correspondence, Future Time

Try as they may to savor the taste of eternity, their thoughts still twist and turn upon the ebb and flow of things in past and future time. But if only their minds could be seized and held steady, they would be still for a while and, for that short moment, they would glimse the splendor of eternity, which is forever still.

- Saint Augustine

source: Saint Augustine (2003). “Confessions”, Penguin UK

topic: Past, Ebb And Flow, Forever, Twists And Turns, Future Time

Bias used to say that men ought to calculate life both as if they were fated to live a long and a short time, and that they ought to love one another as if at a future time they would come to hate one another; for that most men were bad.

- Diogenes Laertius

topic: Hate, Men, Long, Future Time

To me... it appears that there have been differences of opinion and party differences, from the first establishment of government to the present day, and on the same question which now divides our own country; that these will continue through all future time; that every one takes his side in favor of the many, or of the few, according to his constitution, and the circumstances in which he is placed.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 4: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.208

topic: Country, Party, Differences, Differences Of Opinion, Future Time

A revolution in humanity's use of fossil fuel-based energy would be necessary sooner or later to sustain and to extend modern standards of living. It will be required sooner if we are to hold the risks of climate change to acceptable levels. The costs that we bear in making an early adjustment will bring forward, and reduce for future times, the costs of the inevitable eventual adjustment away from fossil fuels.

- Ross Garnaut

topic: Change, Humanity, Risk, Standards Of Living, Adjustment

You cannot fight against future. Time is on its side.

- William E. Gladstone

topic: Time, Future, Fighting, Future Time

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.

- George Harrison

topic: Time, Future, Carpe Diem, Carpe, Hope For The Future

If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer. Every moment is the most important moment of your life. No future time is better than now to let down your guard and love.

- David Deida

source: David Deida (2009). “Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life and Death and Love and Sex”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Order, Waiting, Suffering, Live And Love, Future Time

Time is not a linear flow, as we think it is, into past, present, and future. Time is an indivisible whole, a great pool in which all events are eternally embodied and still have their meaningful flash of supernormal or extra - sensory perception, and glimpse of something that happened long ago in our linear time.

- Frank Waters

source: Frank Waters (1999). “Mountain Dialogues”, Swallow Press

topic: Meaningful, Time, Past, Indivisible, Linear Time

Do not merely think that you are great; think that you are great now. Do not think that you will begin to act in a great way at some future time; begin now.

- Wallace D. Wattles

source: Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Being Great: Personal Self-Help Book of Wallace D. Wattles (Unabridged): From one of The New Thought pioneers, author of The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, How to Get What You Want, Hellfire Harrison, How to Promote Yourself and A New Christ”, p.45, e-artnow

topic: Thinking, Way, Future Time

Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to reflect on the same truth, they would spare to their own countries the penalties on their present wrongs which will be inflicted on them in future times. The seeds of hatred and revenge which they sow with a large hand will not fail to produce their fruits in time. Like their brother robbers on the highway, they suppose the escape of the moment a final escape and deem infamy and future risk countervailed by present gain.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Karma, Country, Running, Oppressors, Future Time

Mysterious power, whence hope ethereal springs! Sweet heavenly relic of eternal things! Inspiring oft deep thoughts of things divine: The past, the present, and the future time. Thy reminiscences transport the soul To memory?s Paradise?its future goal.

- Parley P. Pratt

topic: Dream, Sweet, Memories, Ethereal, Future Goals

No parents will in that future time have the right to burden society with a malformed or mentally incompetent child.

- H. Bentley Glass

topic: Children, Parent, Burden, Future Time

What you do to-day that is worthwhile, inspires others to act at some future time.

- Marcus Garvey

topic: African American, Inspire, Words Of Wisdom, Future Time

Life is short and tedious, and is wholly spent in wishing; we trust to find rest and enjoyment at some future time, often at an age when our best blessings, youth and health, have already left us. When at last I that time has arrived, it surprises us in the midst of fresh desires; we have got no farther when we are attacked by a fever which kills us; if we had been cured, it would only have been to give us more time for other desires.

- Jean de la Bruyere

topic: Life, Blessing, Giving, Future Time

What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won't seem important at all.

- Anton Chekhov

topic: Important, Serious, Forgotten, Future Time

Our assent to the hypothesis implies that it is held to be true of all particular instances. That these cases belong to past or to future times, that they have or have not already occurred, makes no difference in the applicability of the rule to them. Because the rule prevails, it includes all cases.

- William Whewell

source: William Whewell (1968). “Theory of Scientific Method”, p.151, Hackett Publishing

topic: Past, Differences, Cases, Future Time

If there's any possibility for enlightenment, it's right now, not at some future time. Now is the time.

- Pema Chodron

topic: Live In The Moment, Enlightenment, Moments, Future Time

Abdul Nacer Benbrika's sentence doesn't expire, I'm told, until 2021, but I think it would be invidious for me as the Attorney-General to talk about individual cases or to anticipate the way in which a court, because it would be a judicial decision, might at some unspecified future time dispose of an application under a law that hasn't even yet been enacted.

- George Brandis

source: Source: www.abc.net.au

topic: Thinking, Law, Decision, Future Time

If there were nothing else of Abraham Lincoln for history to stamp him with, it is enough to send him with his wreath to the memory of all future time, that he endured that hour, that day, bitterer than gall - indeed a crucifixion day - that it did not conquer him - that he unflinchingly stemmed it, and resolved to lift himself and the Union out of it.

- Walt Whitman

source: Walt Whitman (1990). “Memoranda During the War”, p.82, Applewood Books

topic: Memories, Wreaths, Unions, Future Time

At some future time I shall see New York the artist's ground. I think you will create an American School.

- Mary Cassatt

source: Mary Cassatt, National Gallery of Art (U.S.) (1970). “Mary Cassatt, 1844-1926”

topic: New York, School, Thinking, Future Time

Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time.

- Alfred Marshall

source: Alfred Marshall (2010). “Principles of Economics”, p.54, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Rights, Use, Benefits, Future Time

Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

topic: Book, Men, Speak, Future Time

Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.

- B.K.S. Iyengar

source: B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.83, Shambhala Publications

topic: Thinking, Littles, Little Things, Future Time

Peace will come soon to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure their cases and pay the costs.

- Abraham Lincoln

source: Ulysses S. Grant, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stephen Crane, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle: Personal Memoirs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.2829, Modern Library

topic: Military, Successful, Men, Ballots, Future Time

The opening of a foreign trade, by making them acquainted with new objects, or tempting them by the easier acquisition of things which they had not previously thought attainable, sometimes works a sort of industrial revolution in a country whose resources were previously undeveloped for want of energy and ambition in the people: inducing those who were satisfied with scanty comforts and little work, to work harder for the gratification of their new tastes, and even to save, and accumulate capital, for the still more complete satisfaction of those tastes at a future time.

- John Stuart Mill

source: John Stuart Mill (2016). “Principles of Political Economy: Mill's Works”, p.237, VM eBooks

topic: Country, Ambition, Hard Work, Foreign Trade, Future Time

Past time is finite, future time is infinite.

- Edwin Powell Hubble

source: Edwin Powell Hubble (1937). “The Observational Approach to Cosmology”

topic: Time, Science, Past, Future Time

Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given you as uncovenanted surplus, and live it out in harmony with nature.

- Marcus Aurelius

topic: Life, Future, Stories, Future Time

If God really became incarnate, and if His Incarnation can with justice compel man to change his life,then we have no alternative but to conceive of this Incarnation as something which is still present and which will remain present for all future time. ... What happens in the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist is something for which all religions of mankind have exressed longing, dimly sensed was coming, and as a rule even prefigured- the physical presence of the divine Logos made man, and the presence of his sacrificial death, in the midst of the congregation celebrating the mysteries.

- Josef Pieper

topic: Men, Justice, Alternatives, Future Time

To secure integrity there must a lofty sense of duty and a deep responsibility to future times as well as to God.

- Joseph Story

topic: Integrity, Responsibility, Virtue, Future Time

Though one should live through all the time from Adam and all the time to come before the judgment day doing good works, yet he who, energising in his highest, purest part, crosses from time to eternity, verily in the sight of God this man conceives and does far more than anyone who lives throughout all past and future time, because this now includes the whole of time. One master says that in crossing over time into the now each power of the soul will surpass itself. . . .

- Meister Eckhart

topic: Past, Men, Sight, Judgment Day, Crossing Over